You must ascend a mountain to learn your relation to matter, and so to your own body, for it is at home there, though you are not.

Man is an animal who more than any other can adapt himself to all climates and circumstances.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

The news we hear, for the most part, is not news to our genius. It is the stalest repetition.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust.